Mysterious Reads
Winter 2020
A good girl's guide to murder
by Holly Jackson

Five years after the shattering murder and suicide of two popular teens, a skeptical high school student reexamines the case before uncovering disturbing clues about what really happened. A first novel. 
The hand on the wall
by Maureen Johnson

A conclusion to the series that includes The Vanishing Stair finds another death compelling Stevie to navigate mysterious riddles and track down a missing David at the same time a massive storm forces her to confront a killer.
One of us is next : The Sequel to One of Us Is Lying
by Karen M. McManus

A sequel to the best-selling One of Us Is Lying finds the Bayview friends targeted by an anonymous adversary who uses an increasingly dangerous truth-or-dare app to keep the late Simon’s gossip legacy alive.
The King of Crows
by Libba Bray

In a conclusion to the best-selling series, the Diviners pursue Isaiah’s vision of a mysterious girl who could shift the balance in their struggle for peace, while an escaped Jericho reveals a harrowing plot by the malevolent King of Crows.
The silence of bones
by June Hur

In Joseon Dynasty-era Korea, sixteen-year-old Seol, an indentured servant within the police bureau, becomes entangled in a politically-charged investigation into the murder of a noblewoman.
Girl, unframed
by Deb Caletti

Reluctantly returning to her film star mother’s home in California, Sydney finds herself the object of unwanted attention before a thrilling night gone wrong calls her loyalties into question. By the award-winning author of Honey, Baby, Sweetheart.
You're next
by Kylie Schachte

Haunted by the unsolved murder of a classmate whose body she discovered, a teen with a reputation for nosiness witnesses the death of a former flame before uncovering a shocking conspiracy that puts her loved ones in mortal danger.
Splinters of scarlet
by Emily Bain Murphy

Avoiding magical powers that create a deadly toxin in her blood with every use, Marit Olsen risks using the magic to secure a job in a wealthy household where her friend and fellow orphan, Eve, has been adopted under mysterious circumstances.
Ruthless gods
by Emily A. Duncan

The voices that Serefin hears in the darkness, the ones that Nadya believes are her gods, the ones that Malachiasz is desperate to meet--those voices want a stake in the world, and they refuse to stay quiet any longer.
The vanishing deep
by Astrid Scholte

A teen diver in a water-covered world collects enough from the immersed city ruins to pay for a procedure to bring her sister back to life for 24 hours, a quest for answers that is complicated by her revived sister’s desire for a final day of freedom.
Hunting November
by Adriana Mather

A sequel to Killing November finds November Adley surviving a crash course in espionage before teaming up with her classmate and crush, Ash, to follow clues in an international treasure hunt that enmeshes her in a web of deception.
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